1 st European Summer School on Soil Survey

1 st European Summer School on Soil Survey 21 -25 July 2003 Luca Montanarella EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE Institute for Environment and Sustainability 12/30/2021

What is the Joint Research Centre? The JRC is one of the twenty-four Directorate Generals of the European Commission 20 Commissioners DG RECHERCHE CCR DG BUDGET DG AGRICULTURE DG Mr Philippe Busquin European Commissioner for Research DG RESEARCH 12/30/2021 DG JRC ……… DG ENVIRONMENT and TWENTY OTHER DGs

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Organisational Chart 12/30/2021

Institutional Actions 12/30/2021

Enlargement Activities 2003 Actions 20 new non-Statutory positions (almost all IES Actions) • Burnt Area Mapping • Analysis of Urban and Regional Development • Greenhouse Gases Emissions from Eastern European agriculture • Indicators for Sustainable Management of Waste • The PEOPLE Project By end June 2003, IES had received around 100 applications from 2003 Call for Applicants. 20 Workshops and Advanced Training Courses • Improvement of Emission Inventories • Water Quality /Eutrophication in the Black and Baltic Seas • European Summer School on Soil Survey • ESDI 12/30/2021 350 participants from Enlargement States

Bruxelles, le 16. 4. 2002 COM(2002) 179 final COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Towards a Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection http: //europa. eu. int/comm/environment/agriculture/soil_protection. htm 12/30/2021

Streamlining the flow of policy relevant soil information in Europe Georeferenced Soil Database for Europe EU Soil Monitoring (ICP Forest+LUCAS, etc. ) Reporting policy relevant soil data aggregated by administrative units National Soil Monitoring National Soil Surveys ACCESS 12/30/2021 Soil Mapping Unit (Soilscape) HARMONISATION Normalised Statistical Unit REPORTING

A common soil information system for an enlarged European Union 12/30/2021

European Soil Information System Soil data 12/30/2021 EUROPEAN SOIL BUREAU NETWORK

CD ROM of the European Soil Database 12/30/2021

Planned extension of the European Soil Database 12/30/2021

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From the Global to the Local Scale EUSIS - A nested soil information system for Europe Different scales give answers to different questions Global assessments World Soil and Terrain Database 1 : 5, 000 FAO Soil Geographical Database of Europe 1 : 1, 000 EU Member States Georeferenced Soil Database of Europe 1 : 250, 000 Catchment Information System 1 : 50, 000 Regions Soil Monitoring Sites Spatial planning Precision farming Communes 12/30/2021 1 : 5000 EUROPEAN SOIL BUREAU

1 st European summer school on soil survey 27 students (21 financed by JRC, 6 self financed) 11 Countries represented: Pl-2, Lt-2, Cz-2, Lv-2, Tr-3, H-9, Bg-1, Si-1, Sk-1, It-2 7 Instructors (financed by JRC): from Uk, Dk, Es, Nl, H (Including them, countries represented in the school: 15) Number of JRC financed (students + instructors): 28 Participants for the field excursion (including JRC staff): 42 (local soil surveyors not included in the 42) 12/30/2021